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Through the Ages: Dungeons & Dragons Cover Art

What this is: a scrollable, one page list of D&D cover art for core rulebooks(or “semi-core rulebooks”, semi-core of course being subjective) rulebooks of the various versions of the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop RPG game.

I spent some time searching for a page like this that had everything all in one place for D&D cover art and couldn’t find it (although there are great resources out there, nothing seems to have it all on one page). So I hope you find this useful and fun to browse.

I also hope for this to be an ongoing, fluid post as more information comes to light and (hopefully) folks point out things I’ve missed or books I should have covered but didn’t, etc. So feel free!

Many sites were helpful in helping me remember (or learn about!) the various rulebooks and their chronology, but the three I found myself on most often were the Tome of Treasures, Wikipedia and D&D Classics.

Without further ado, the Dungeons & Dragons rulebook cover art throughout the years:

We actually have the 3rd edition redbox set as well as (once had) the 3rd Edition Core Rulebooks. We are looking at trying to regather 3.5 Edition set as we make our own tabletop rpg.
Thank you for the walk through memory lane! Kudos!

Brilliant, I have a mouldy old box in my basement I had forgotten about with almost all the books from the red box to the 2nd edition books. I’m going to dig it out and give it to my teenage son and tell him this is what we played before video games, maybe he will take an interest. This brought back a ton of old memories, thanks!